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This Day was publiailei; In Two Volumes tzato. the. Second . Edition, pries 125. boards, .. IVIEMOIRS of an AMERICAN LADY ; NAith Sketches.of Manners and Scenery - in America, -as tn,y g xisted previous to the Revolution. • - Vriilid for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternomor row ; 1. Hatchard, Picadilly i ; arid Mrs. H. Cook, term) it bt rezt . ••.•This is a Work of very considerable merit ; it excites ' many pleasing emotions; 4ommtnikates many in•erestnig razis and anecdotes, and dept is in-a very lively, tiAl we have no doubt faithul manner, much grand and striking see tiery."—,Ann. Rev-. 1808. • •. Ot-whom may be had, by the same Author, • i. Letters from the Mountains ; the 4th Edition in 3 vols. 12:no. price 13s. 6d. bds.. , • 2. 'rhe Highlander, andother Poems; zd Edition foolscap. - . livo. price 7s. extra boards. , , . lust published, - 13y Williams and Smith, No. to, Stationers' Court, Ltidgate street, R. LIEWELLYN'S'WO.RKs. 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V 0 D MONDAY, DECEMBER- 18,,.130.9 t „ Thete is every reason to belicve tliat the report of tho loss of the friga.te ly totally _tinfQ'.'.,nded• No account . of such an accident has reached tie Al.'- tuiralty, and yet many letters, have been received front Guernsey, dated the , -ttl( itistant, the very day that the report of the Russqr'; lass i said to have bttto received at Plymouth, We have confident. hopes, therefore, that the report must have originated. in a.mistal:e. We trwit that it is the otfiprinz of some malevotent writer. We last night received Span4ll, Papers to the tilt.— They, well as the Portuguese Papeis - which arrived on Saturday, attempt to represent the result of tlfe late battle as less unfavourable to the Spaniards than was at first reported. We have, however, little doubt that the defeat was most decisive. W h;,vQ.seen private letters which represent the hiss of the Spaniards as amounting to 5000 .killed, and 7..l)olctisanets. .Th.s; however, we are convinced„ is a t;reat esaggerittion of their loss. But while,'on the *one hand, we do trot thip.l: it light to dissemble tt.e defeat of the Spaniards, oil the other, we are far fro_n considerin,; their cause as hopeless, because, army hps been beaten, 'Tile Spanish ar r.ne. have been ,repeatedly defeated and d:spersed, b.lr they have invariably, aSsembled again, aid in a ,hart . tilue have been ready to make head against The French, it is ; aid, Srffe'red ,very s•zt-erely in tills battle, and; indeed, nothing can -be :ro-)ger proof of the imprQved ditcipline of the Si ,•.-hiards than that for three 1)(46: they thaintained grow id agaikist the French in ba open plain, w:iere the latter had full opportunity to avail them. selves bi . ' their super;or tactics. It is said that the Span:lards saved the greater part of th i eir artillery. If this, 4.vere true, we .should be convinced that thv was by up means clectsive.: ,There-is a para• graph in these, Papers which we read with consi d6rable • pleasure, it states, that accounts had been received from C.italonia th;kt. another French Squa. d i • on . w , ; if,,,h had sailed frpm Toulon with troops and ammunitin on board, had been captured by - a Bri , • tish Squadron. Tile first accounts, which );cached of the late ataion in the . Mediterranean, reached use through the Spanish 'Papers, and we trust the result will, prove them to, have been as correa on this oc casion as they wto rp nn the. former. Lod WEL.LINGT . ON'S- army, we are happy to . say, is in a very different situation; both in point of health , A nd numbers, from that in which it is representedtoi be in the private Letters dated from the :Banks of the Tagus, .but written on the Banks of the Thames, which appear in some of our Opposition Papers. A • The troops were rapidly recovering their lk;alth, and the arthy amounted, when the, last official accounts enemies. came away, to 32,000 men. It is highly probable that Lord WELLINGTON will Make Some movements to facilitate the retreat of the Spanish Army, and to give it time to re-assemble. Colonel TARDLE, not satisfied with the result of tivo .fair trials, and the verdicts of two impartial luries, has thought proper to address a letter to Lord ELLUNDOROuGH, in which he attemptetoans- Wer some of the . observations made by the Learned Judge , in his summing up to the Jury,- on the late . trial fc,.r the' conspiracy ., Such the unfeigned vene: • ration which we feel for the decision of our Courts of Justice, that we cannot view without deep regret, . • . , • • • • • any thing like an animadversion upon , their decisions. .A.‘defr.*d perry is seldom ! satisfied with the juds. m:nt which , cleclares thern to'h2ve ban wrong, but it i not to ))e endured, that every disappointed is to vent his spleen by arraigning tte deci.ion.ol Court of ..111:tice. In this case, as Con \Vat:D[4l has ;e ;pressed and - as alrhoSt all the •Moining • Papers have , given extraeta trorn this letter, we liave sele6leJ Some Farts 91 it, in order to gfoify the cu riosity of our ,Readers.—We, are far finin being the frieuds•of Col. WARD t.t., but we are. convinced that we give him most triendly co , lncil, when we advise him to obtrude as little as possible• for the future or; .1 NAVAL NEWS. the LONLON GAZETTE, Dec. i 6, ISog. -./Ithiziralty-011iee, Dec. t 6, 1 seg. Coy of a Letter from Captain Sir George R. Collier, of his Nlajesty's Ship-the Stirveillante, addressed to the'Hon. Rear-Admiral Stopford, and transmitted by Lord,Gambler to lahn Wilson Croker, Esq. , . His Majesty's ship Surveillance, at . .SIR, Sea, Dec. 3, 1809. - I have the honour to acqutkint you, that his Ma:, jesty's ship under my command has been driven in the late gale s -raOter to the southward of the station allotted to.her by your order ; and' in recovering" my ground this. day, captured the French cutter priva teer La Comtesse l - Laure, Jean Jacques Beltiers, CoM mander. - The privateer is of a class, and possesses qualities admirably calculated (Or the, annoyance of the Bri tish trade; she is coppey-bottomed and sails fast ; pierced for 16 guns,,and has 14 mounted twelve and eight-poundera; .5,5 men on board,. being part of her complement ; five days out of 1100'1000 without InalOng,4ay capture; .. 1 have the honour to be, Sic. (Signed) Q. A. CQLLIER, _ _ Pop.T4mou . Tll,,DEc.. 10..7 - Ma owing the Fran chise -irigate, Capt.:DAsnwdon, arrived here in 37 • "from Vera Crui, and 25 days from off the liavannah; she has hroUght home .a million of dol, tars for Government. The Franchise spoke the Mermaid frigate . a 'few days since ; she had. patted from the convoy which she sailed with from Quebec in a gale of wind. The British ships . Which have lately visited Vera Cruz, have been very sickly.— The Franchise lost 26 men, beside Lieut: D. JONES , TIN. and Lieut: IL P. CAV,ENAGH, Royal Marines. All the Midshipmen of the Vociaziv . tcd - trie4 . there the public nctice. This morning a meeting of Col. WARPLE'S pa triotic friends took place at the CrOwn and Anchor,. whenafter several Speeches from 4r. WAITH3AIs7, Mr. GALE JotiEs, and others, a number of. Reso lutions expressive of the high opinion the Com pany entertained of Col. WARL patriotism, were .greed to, and a subscription resolved upon. Mr. WAITIiMAg., Mr. COLBET, Mr. GOOT;LE .&C. are the Corm - pittee to manage the Sl2l-1, scri;:tsa~. Yesterday morning, his M.k.insrry, Princess.,.ku"! QCSTA and SOPHIA, accompanied by Ladies CARO WALDEGRAVE PPCI-ELY, rude to St: Oeprge's Chapel, and, heard f Diyine Service. . - On Friday; the bf the Cuuticil met upon plizeappeats, - at the . ountil-Officei Whitehall. His MAJESTY is expeded in town on Wednesday, ~i lhen lie will Tei::eiVe'tlie Persian Ambassador, also Elie'Citr-Acidres . g. His MAJESTY willlikewise bold a Private Levcd and Prig Council, at the clueEN's Palace. The: Dukes of CAMBRIDGE and CUMBERLAND.ar ived iii LOndoit on Friday, from Windsor. The QUEEN'S indisposition,'- we lament to hear, ha's aSsumed a character which excites considerable u n e a s iness and alarm amongst. thoseaboet-her. . , The Tr4iity Board have a l ,pointed-4 considerable number of pilots, for navigatieg vessels on dfferent parts oflhe'coast from pungeness to Dartmouth. We understand that Mr. SADLEWIIO:is .cele-r hrafed as the first English v o ye-Teot, intend 'making his fifteenth aerial excursion at Oeldrd', in a magni ficent balloon, at the etisniu: installation of -the Chancellor of that - University. Sir It. G. KEATES is appOiitted- Governor of Malta, in the room of the late Sir 4. BILL.' Amessenger arrived yesterday:at the rereign 01- f ice from Seville: We understand le i : has , brought dispatches, containiug an ollicial acoonnt of the de feat of the Spanish army of La Mancha. We have received Boston Papers to the middle of last month. The discussions between Mr. JACKSON end the Secretary of the United States were suspended in consequence of the indisppeitionof the later, and Mr. JAcKsos had proceeded on a % isit to Petitimore, where lie intended to remain uuei iiie n e,"ting of Congres.s,• whtch w . as apeoieted Icy the .27iiI ult: These Papers. state,, that Miss PAYTEESON, the repu diated wife of his Majesty the King of Westphalia, is created a Duchess by' the EMperoeNapoleoe, and that the issue of their late marriage is recognize: , as a Prince. • , , • •t DEAL,. DEC. )7.—Arrived his Majesty's ship , KING'S THEATIIP..-rThe new comic Opera of : Mermaid from. Quebec, and remains in the Downs Lea ,SCOPelerSa V. , a'3 - I ei)eated. ort S Atli clay last at • • i with the outward-eohnd as per gist. this place before a numerals and eke:jun. atlai- ( / _____ enee. Ties 'piece 'was much too kortig at first, and i . bas beef ptoperly shortr:+ed. Inc, beautiful Ii u GBEENoCK, WV. 15.—The Mars, Capt. - RAE- Was a.gaiu encored. ' TRE*AezANI, though a little ' .ye : e r , u,, Jet., an Leis too grave. and dignified for thd comic . detie,r, was . . vE.'Y e an iVed nere -st -I.fay'frorn Q. ' d '• . , more easy titan at first. ,IN'ALDI is t', wlliimica t experienced, since the 3tt instant,' the most sevem.,, , , ... . . J and diverting as ever. The A - lane:es vo.et, 0,11: . very. • vyeatlier." •To,resitt:ve the hip , a considot'fee • i Areel well A O the w'nole was oruch A!)plauded. , . :of the cargo was . Ahrown oVerboard. Ctee , .. “-1 . ,'• - - Tki..rrilE*lTr'll.----Tbe t•ranfic'ilit . v I '.'h i o in gene - ' SL Y p ea ks s of the exertions - of Mee geteleoien his , . , . rat attended i:le represeniation of The Elite and da. ' '. ers, with the utinoSt gtatiwee. He himself the World:s a Sttrae on Saturday litt, at Coveie- Ger- P.' is ''" n g ~ & ' ' qen Theit re (lice e ll ti.e , ,!werr a iewatfelnut , to to-. , 'was w:lsked : overb.oard,and icy tp-p greatest exertions nee; the Cliscootents) stroeglyindeees ueeo hope that' ' oule wel.; saved, peace will be effectually re-establisited, 'When the dramatic performances, however e coeCeded, a per sett in the Pit addressed .the audience, and declared that it•seemed to' he the int , m fiou of the Proprietors in general to recede frOto the pledge which . had beet) given by Mr. KF,'N.IBLE at lire Clown and Atichor,. importing that the Wi r ok: of the Pi 'watt! Boxes sho:nici be • thrown , open to the public... 'f lie pledge, ti o„ underStatid, really given-by :Al'. N.EMIII,E; as stated in th.. Aavertifientglit from the Theatre, and aS ad mitted by the elect of the Opixeition Committee, was, that the Private Boxes ill fr 0.14 were to be thrown open to the public.' As' to the Private Boxes 'on the sides, they hoe been quietly assented :to' for three or tour seasons, and it seems strange-.indeed that a new party should' start up, and reverse the judgment' Of the public for so long a period, upon a . point that, haviie . t . thus been sanetiooed by,publie a*ciiescence,' ought not to be ;„nvolved in the:recent subjects -of dissenSioe. Besides, the Proprietors have lost the best 'part .of the season ; they haVe been • deprived of all the advautage which the' novelty of so beautiful a Theieee was likely to have afferded theM, and their Proper:if has balm inateriallYTinjer ed during the 'period of waddle. . Bet, above all, the precarious nature of theatrical property ought to be taken into consideration, and surely it would be hard indeed not to let the Proprietors derive a certain annual profit-from the saro numb,. rot Private. Boxes , 1 7 0 which the public 114 s tolerated for so many seasons. . - f cm,,' .• . • • - 5t3 iC, thin v'alue Z 43. 8 , pet Ct. We therefore lepe . that the leaders - of the opposition V i tt' s s' o . ()i• Nat' Crowns t tot ditto to 19 9 ditto• will weigh this point with justice as well . as 4 :Abs. of St)tiling 3 2 '59 dittb 3z iz. 6 ditto. ditto , ; 62, o 8 ditto, liberality andsuffer the The6l•:e to remain upon 4*-ibs• of Sixeceges 037 the old footing; liOwever resolute and active a few : Since this period the gradual coinage has been in individuals rre;y beeO obstrua that tranquility which, ' a gradual state of deterioration. but for this ot,Jsle:cl.e, would-perhaps have . been 'fully ' On the god inst. an - alteration is intended to be restored. made in the Appearance of Bank Notes, chiefly 'in . , . . ' Two of the ,powder-mills near ,tiounslow_ were having the 'date and number printei, instead of be blown up on Thursday evening. .. „ , ingwritten as'iit present, and the number printed on • Mr. Peck, of Seeihing-lane, Tower-street, has ' the words". I promise," 'and or . " Bearer," with. the . in hls possession a live seal, weighing near . 30t1 : omission of the names of the entering clerks. ~.. weight, and which he keeps in a large cistern of A melancholy accident lately happened at Hunt water; it is is docile as to feed from the hand. . ,in don, A youeg man, apprentice to Mr. Artis, SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr.- BEeo, the Master of alba' place, having found an old gun-barrel, which Slaughter's Coffee-house, St. Mailin's-lane, was, ,on . had lain in a lemben , charriber for a dozen years, into . a forge; when it Thursday, mori - thg . found dead in his bed, to which' put it, without . examinatien, tie retired on the Orecediug' Bight in apparent good Proved to be loaded, and axplbding in a few secpnds, ~ ~,. , : '• --• ' i • killed him nn the spot. health. ~. o except one. • 1 . Caine into, the Karhour tha..No.rvai, from Lon.; don, for Saint Michael's. - Also the Priscilla, CON. • NELL,' from London ) , for Cork. Sailed ,bis,,,Majesty's.Oip uryalus, for a'cruiFx off Cherbourgh and the Charytais, cipt, Fowt.nn, for Cork. The Grenville Eat, Stramobros, •Master, bound. } to Trinidad, has lost an anchor and cable in the gale of the t.;:tit inst. Went out of Harbour the Growler, Lieutenant • • - - • • - caossm4N. I r••••••••••" , ... YARMOVTII, DEC. G.--Yesterday morning the • • brig actharine, of Sunderland, was lost on the Home Sand, and onIN, one man (the carpenter) saved, by the Lowestoft Lite"-boat. The poor fellow had four of his ribs broken, andwas otherwise much 'bruised, in getting into the boat. , . FALMOUTH, Dec. 14.—Arrived the Snake Packet, in 13 days, tiorn The westerly winds, which usually prevail at this season of the yeAr., ,still prevent the -tae for the West Ihdies, - Coost at Africa ) Portugal, and th , Mediterrane3n, from sailing from •rortFrnouth. The ships (or the Wet filches" are very. numerous.. The `Unite; CzyIahi • CAMPBELL, takes in charge the 'rihi'ps 'for . Portugal, and the Mediterranean ; and the "Crocodite, Captain CoLu m aiNs, those for the coi4i. of Africa. The inconstant, fr,crote,. Captain DicKsoN, is under orders tOr the Cape 4)1 Good Hope ; and the Ganymede,. Captaiti for Lisbon. 'The maks or which has Prevailed respcEting the intentions of the Bank Dire tors to issue Nnte , t of Teti Shillirgs"Value, is entirely wiliont foundation ; bat they are takitig . efreeinal measures to.:‘,upply the public with such a quantity of stainpel dollars, as will entirely remove the present scarcity ot. silver ;. and as these dollars are. 20 per cent., ni re Val.:Jabio than - the present silver currency, they will induce tl , e holdeis of the small silver to bring into it circulation. It is sttrprising upon what_ principle any person. can be induced to keep Much of this coin in their pos session, as, from the following accurate statement of its value, made sonic years since at the Tower, the loss to them, in case of a, neW,coinve, will be mt,;ll§e POETR4r. ONIO . IIN BULL IN HIS BUSKINS ; oz, TIFF AUD lENCE I TURNED ACTORS. " Natio comeda est," once said the Bard severe Or Greeks degen'rate—points then the sarcasm . here2 Yes.—Call forth luvenal,,let him take a glance, -At john Ball's antic:ks; and-his-0; I', Dance. v " Natio eoinceda tit," still would the Sat'rist Of Panionthnic Britons of the day." • Liverpool. Dee. 54, 1809. 1. W. • • RIOT. Yesterday afternoon afuripus contest took plate between twe - numerous bodies of Irishmen, , the one residing in St. Giles, and the other in the Vicinity of Whitechvel, in which several on both sides were severely bruised, but we do not'find that there is any truth in the report that some lives were lost on the occasion.. It appears that a battle was to have been fought between two individualS of the opposite par ties, in consequence of the riot which took place. • some time sin,ce at. Bow Fair. Yesterday was the day fixed on fo; this pugilistic, contest, but owing to a mistake, one party went • with their champion to the fields near the Foundling •Tospital, conct.iving .that to have ' . been settled. as the scene of action, And the other party, with • their combatant,,; sallied_forth to.the Fields adjoining Chalk Farm. After the respeelive parties had waited a sufficient time at each place, to • induce' them to believe that their opponents were afraid to hazard the, encounm .• ter, bath parties returned to town in triumph over the supposed cowardice of their adversaries. Un-c . happily, howeier they happened to meet each other, and instead of the,contest between the two indivi— duals,. a look royal took place of the most violent . nature, and which was not confined to the end of Oxford,road, but raged through Dyot-street, anct roost of the purlieys of St. Giles's. The mischief, we understand, is not so extensive as might hay* been apprehended, considering the number and fury' of the combatants ; but! one man was so sevetelt btrt, that it was necessary to take him tb the -flos!ii pital, prostrate on a shutter, ,The affair is to be in-. vestigated this day at the Bow-street Office, and: several of thetioters have been taken into custody 4 DUBLIN, DEc. 14. On. the'niolt of 'Fiiday last, the Bth iostanf; about the hour of eight.o!clock., tour men, two orthera _armed, went to the lattd.4 °Wu - ye-hill, in the County of Tipperary, part of the estate of Lord Clon. , niel, and about tour miles front Carrick, on, ; the, North side of the Sun, for the purpose of. cuter ting down •an ash tree.. , They were discovered . in the aet by James the tenant to the farm, who made iionse resistance against the tempt. A?ter some ~itltei-cation, he was,eorUpolleci to return to his bodge, but he had no sooner entered it than One of the ruffians fired a shot through the dear,. the contents of .which (a musket bath IndggCF in We lower patt o f Arragirs'belly, of which w oun d, he languished till' about eleven o'clock on S,aturd - af , morning, and then expired. The transaction * 0 communicated to Mr. Wilcox in about an hour after it happened, and he, with his accu,toinedahwrity; took., f - Turil Carrick a party of dragoons , and contin u e d ' searching the neighbourhecd for neatiy the e ntire night . ; his exertions, hoWever;were fruitless, and he t :. was obliged to return without disc Overing the cri., Arrigal 'was wanted by 'a medical Gentle- moan of his approaching dissolution, and was hitnsel fully.sensible of his, hopeless situation ; fut, neither, .;.!,rea)ie3 net- argurnents,conld prevail on trims to give ntc, - ; - ,vation on oath relative in tht! ~. . . On th'' l' , ;j. 0i the H. i, ,h of November Imt, the -- Hera, STBACItAN master, belonging -to -Dundee, while on her voyage friim 1.,0d0n to Seville; under convoy of` the . Frederic. I,- steire sloop of war; parted' Company. Not obServing her rit-to morning, tba Hero proceeded with a - fair wi:A for her des' tined port. When off Cape Finisterre, distant about• forty-two; miles, and bearing . E..N . E. two 1 3 .9 r" tuguese seamen (who with the captain, mate, aq ,l a i, formed Ole ship's comp.an)), rose dcp - ii3g. the tti.7ht. of the i2th, attacked,.the mate at the helm, and ;mocked- his brains out with aliand,spike. Tiler the,n - descended to the cabin, where the (:',,t‘iitl was. asleep, and giving him repeated stabs in t b , body. left" him for dead.. Hoisting out thr stnall -boat, t hey filled her with clothes, compasses, quadrant, watches, lice. and previous lo leaving the ship, bored. a hole iti her bottom, and proceeded to knock 0.. t the ports, at. that moment, the Captain, who- hat . scrambled up the' rigging to the main-top, pretended to hall a ship. The night was : remarkably dark, and t„ C, ruffians.; qUite alarmed,% jumped in: the boat, and ''trade off with thei, booty. The Cap:ain, then camp down ; and w ! are happy to ;earn, had.' been able to carry the Hero within' a day's s 3 i l of her' port, i and the,Wind was fair when he wro te. He was then getting better of his wOunds, which were, prin. P cipally in the th . igh ; but his left hand is so much cut with the knife, that it is feared he will nelier re., cot ei the use of it. A ..man named taker, on Friday evening, fotil triflitlg wager, undertook to eat, at the Rising -Sun, nmr. the Turnpike, Newington; a leg Of mutton of nine. poutids,,Jour pounds of potatoes, a bunch of tutunips, and-a threepenny loaf,land to drink a gal° Hlon,ot.porter, win hin an hour; and he performed the disgusting teat in little mote than fifty minutes. -- The zeal. and Lenevolence of the parochial der' gy, and other peronsot ,different tlenominatiOns, have occasioned the ka.stitulion of vast numbers.ni Sunday schools, in North and Soz , th Wales. The numbei - of scholars, (children, 2erson g . far advancvd in years) atp'resent in these,seniinarics, 1, in the faincipality is-cotirputet.l to . he-about ,0,00 t) , , Daniels, th e , pal r:)te, who' was some t ime since charged vvito ‘lll - 4vounding a so;dier, named Richard La w ri , w L t!! a sufficiently- a . 4 brought up - for fCrther examination ; wh: o vis, being suciently recoyered,•atrended at . : J " Office. Danie was• admitted . 11311, ls , se 20014 and two sureties in fut.)l. eaci i • • •